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Brick by Brick Fundraiser

On Monday, February 27th the Me to We club will be setting up an obstacle course in the gym.  Students are invited to come and have fun trying out this course.  As this is a fundraiser for the Brick by Brick Foundation, students are asked to bring a monetary donation – a minimum of $1.00 is needed for admittance.

The Brick by Brick Foundation uses donated monies for the building of schools overseas in countries that don’t have the funds to provide adequate buildings for use as schools for children.

Our class will have this opportunity on Monday at a time between 9:00 and 10:30.

Jump Rope is on Friday!!

We are looking forward to a fun event this Friday afternoon!  We will be doing our jump event with our buddies in Division 3.

Please send in your completed donation forms for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.  The deadline is next Wednesday, February 22nd.  If you have chosen the on-line option please indicate this by writing this on the donation form and returning it to school.

The red hearts that were sent home need to be completed and returned by this Friday.

Thank you.

100’s Day Activities

Wow – what a day today!  We loved changing our calendar straws to 100!  We then began a full and eventful day of hundreds of things!  We made:

– Fruit Loop necklaces with ten colour groups of ten pieces of cereal each

– headbands with 20 stickers in colour and shape patterns, counting by 5’s to 100.  We also did tally marks on the ‘crown’ with 20 groups of 5 tally sets.

We also:

– divided our 100 little snacks into bowls to share with our friends.  We enjoyed these while watching 101 Dalmatians with the kindergardeners this afternoon.

We worked on several activities in our 100’s Day booklet and some students worked on completing their 100’s Day poster.

We took a group photo wearing our vests.  These vests are now on the bulletin board in the hallway.  The collections look great – hopefully you can come by and see them.

Valentine’s Day Fun!

We had a really fun day today!  When students arrived they delivered their valentines to their friends.  Some were a little large for our heart holders!

For Math today we did some addition questions with missing addends as a reminder of how to solve problems with different unknown numbers.  Students then got to work on some Valentine puzzles and word searches.

This afternoon (after our library visit) we wrote a poem following the format of a story that we read yesterday – How Much Do You Love Me?  We worked through a process of brainstorming things that our family members love a lot.  The students then put these together in the framework of our poem.  For example,

I love you as much as DAD loves TO WATCH FOOTBALL ON SUNDAYS ON THE COUCH.

They wrote about 3 different family members and then for the finale they had to decide HOW LONG they would love them – i.e.

I’ll love you until DINOSAURS RULE THE EARTH AGAIN.  That’s how much I love you.

Once they completed their frames they wrote these poems out on heart-shaped papers, cut them out, and glued them to pink construction paper.  These are now posted on a bulletin board outside of our classroom.  Come by and check them out – they are quite well done!

Students had a choice between a Valentine’s activitiy (card making) or Centres for the end-of-day period.  At this time students got to enjoy the snacks sent in – and the treats from their Valentine’s holders.  A huge thank you to all those who sent in goodies for us to eat today!  We have some leftovers which will be enjoyed tomorrow.

REMINDER to send in the 100’s Day vests and small treats for our 100’s celebration tomorrow.

 

Jump Rope for Heart

Friday, February 17th is coming up quickly.  We will be participating in the JUMP event in the afternoon with our 40 minute skipping session with Divisions 3 and 7.

In preparation for this event we have spent some PE periods learning how to skip – on our own and with Mr. Hamilton’s grade 5/6 class.  The students really enjoyed that experience!!

Please remember to complete and return the Heart and Stroke Foundation Pledge envelopes and return them to school.  The red heart also needs to be completed and returned by Friday so we can post them in the gym as further incentive for our event.